Council Activities & Civic Services

Scouting is About Making a Difference

Good Turn for America gives us the opportunity to raise our levels of community service and increase awareness of the Scouting program within our neighborhoods as we focus on three areas of common concern: relief from hunger, lack of housing, and a decline in fitness and health in America.

Good Turn for America will build on the council’s annual “Scouting for Food” drive, Gleaners Fruit Harvest; and “Weekend of Service” projects.  We challenge each unit to commit to furthering their efforts in these important local projects.

Units are also encouraged to organize their own local service projects in the areas of food, shelter, or healthy living.   These unit-level projects will often be in service of local agencies in your community, or may be in service of your chartering organization.  Whatever the project, getting youth involved in direct community service is important. It will benefit the lives of them and their neighbors. Also, your youth will qualify for the Good Turn for America patch and segments available at the Scout office.

Be sure to visit the service initiative website at www.goodturnforamerica.org. You’ll be able to post information about your local unit projects, your members’ service hours for council and unit projects, and gain information about the Good Turn for America initiative.

The information you provide the national website will become valuable as the national organization announces our service hours as a nation-wide body, and reports to the nation the impressive impact Scouting can have on common issues in our society. Our local council will also access the data you post at the Good Turn for America website for use in preparing local stories for television, radio, and newsprint media. The details you provide the website will be very valuable to vital efforts to share the Scouting story with our communities.

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